During a test mission, the underwater vehicle named by a poll - discovered the camera system by accident around 180m deep ...

MIT oceanographers discovered big fish like tuna and swordfish get a large fraction of their food from the ocean’s twilight ...

The White House is weighing an executive order that would fast-track permitting for deep-sea mining in international waters ...

One of the ocean currents in the Arctic Ocean is at risk of disappearing this century because of climate change, according to a new study. As a result, the North Atlantic could be flooded with ...

A massive iceberg broke off from the George VI Ice Shelf in Antarctica in January, giving researchers a rare opportunity to ...

There's an ongoing battle to save a part of this planet from destructive mining that most people don't know about. Not only ...

The Saya de Malha Bank is one of the world’s largest seagrass fields and the planet’s most important carbon sinks. It faces incalculable risks that threaten the future of humanity.

Countries have debated for decades whether to allow mining on the ocean floor, a potential trove of critical minerals. Now, a ...

A team of international researchers has made a sobering discovery at the Calypso Deep, the deepest known point of the ...

Marine life in the deep ocean can take decades to recover from the impact of deep-sea mining for rare metals, new research shows.

The floor of the Calypso Deep − a 5,112-meter-deep trench in the Ionian Sea − holds one of the highest concentrations of ...